THE FORMATION OF THE COLLECTION

The FEMSA Collection is part of Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A., a Mexican company that has continually diversified itself over 130 years. Promoting culture is one of the company’s long-held interests, thanks to encouragement from the founding family. The company’s artistic interests materialized in the 1977 formation of the FEMSA Collection, when the founding family donated El maizal (Milpa seca) by Mexican artist Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl). From that moment on, the Collection has grown by acquiring modern and contemporary art from Latin America, with a particular interest in Mexican art.